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Adult Attention Deficit Disorder - Counter AttackThere are a few basic steps for setting up and using organizer and filing systems to help people with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. These are only general guidelines and can be adjusted to suit individual Adult Attention Deficit Disorder Patient’s needs. Seek help from a trusted friend, educator or other person who uses successful planning strategy, or check with professional organizational companies that help with Adult Attention Deficit Disorder. Adult Attention Deficit Disorder - Utilize PlannersPlanning systems can help people calm down and focus more on real-time, day-to-day activities. They need to be used for short-term and long-term planning. Look over options available in your price ranges at planning departments and stores like Day-Timers and Franklin Covey, and online. There are print planners and planner software for computers and handheld computers. And check with the local librarian and search online for books, forms and other resources that may be available for creating our own planner pages on your computer or word processor. Pencil and paper work fine, too. Many planners have instructions to help guide you through setting up a system. Choose the calendar pages you’d like: some planners offer variations, like choosing between daily, weekly or monthly planning sheets. To begin, have plenty of room to jot down information. Monthly sheets only offer small-boxed areas the size of a calendar for writing down information, whereas daily pages offer one full page per day, usually sectioned off in hourly segments to log your meetings, classes, work and other functions. Fill out any contact information page in case you misplace your planner, then fill in any resource contacts you’d like in the back (like phone numbers for relatives, clients, doctors, etc.). Adult Attention Deficit Disorder - The RemindersTo - Do Lists - Work with your Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or helping coach to create To-Do lists. Keep it simple and start with the top three priorities each day. Add to the list as needed. Then for up to 15 minutes a day, spend time transferring these tasks to your calendar pages and prioritizing them, so you have a strategy for handling each day. Use colored markers and stickers to help and make planning fun. For example, highlight top the three top priority To-Do’s each day in RED. Less important items that don’t necessarily need completed that day could be highlighted in YELLOW. Alarm Systems - To coordinate your schedule, be pro-active. Use an alarm clock and plan on enough time to get up to get ready for work or school. For meetings, appointments and other timed functions throughout the day, get or learn how to set your watch alarm or cell phone alarm (on vibrate mode, if sound will disrupt a class or something). Don’t leave timing to chance and guessing. Take charge! Filing and Management Systems - While organizing, you’ll run across all sorts of items you’ll want to keep for later reference and use, like brochures, letters, instructions, account information, etc., in print or hard copy format and online via email and other computer- and online-generated format. So learn to create and maintain real world and computerized filing systems. Get coaching here, too, from someone you know and trust who successfully maintains his or her own systems regularly. And refer to your books and other resources about your computer model and on home filing systems. For starters, you can set up a box with manila folders for hard copy materials. And create simple folders under “My Files” on your computer to save electronic data. Related Keywords: ADD, adult, memory, management |
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